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POWDER RIVER-Struthers Burt-Farrar & Rinehart...
Powder River is fine folklore material but Struthers Burt skims only the surface...
...worst features of regional writing-shallow local color and uncritical acceptance of apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers. As an example of such journalism, Powder River is no worse than its predecessors, except that Struthers Burt, 56-year-old Philadelphian, best-selling novelist and owner of a dude ranch in the Jackson's Hole country of western Wyoming, has contributed an exclamatory style that can be described only as Wild West prose...
...David S. Burt '40 won the University Tennis Tournament yesterday for the third successive year by defeating Captain Langdon B. Gilkey '40 in the finals...
...group will call in other undergraduate aid as the need arises. Those appointed were from the Council, Cleveland Amory '39 chairman, Robert l. Green '39 mason Fernald '40 and Douglas Mercer '40 and from outside the council Robert T. Gannett, 2d '39, Joseph A. Patrick '39, David S. Burt '40, and Hughes Call...